Deuteronomio 5:26

26 Poiché qual è il mortale, chiunque egli sia, che abbia udito come noi la voce dell’Iddio vivente parlare di mezzo al fuoco e sia rimasto vivo?

Deuteronomio 5:26 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 5:26

For who [is there] of all flesh
What man was there in any age, that was ever heard of or can be named:

that hath heard the voice of the living God;
who lives in and of himself, and is the author and giver of life to all his creatures, whereby he is distinguished from and is opposed unto the lifeless deities of the Gentiles; and which makes him and his voice heard the more awful and tremendous, and especially as

speaking out of the midst of the fire:
which was the present case:

as we [have], and lived?
of this there never was the like instance; for though some had seen God and lived, as Jacob did, and therefore called the name of the place where he saw him Penuel, ( Genesis 32:30 ) , and Moses had heard the voice of the angel of the Lord out of a bush, which seemed to be burning, and was not consumed, ( Exodus 3:2 Exodus 3:4 ) , yet none ever heard the voice of the Lord out of real fire, and particularly expressing such words as he did, but the Israelites. Zoroastres, the founder of the Magi among the Persians, and of their religion, seems to have had respect to this, and to have applied falsely this to himself, which belonged to Moses and the people of Israel; for it is said ^F11,

``one reason the Persians have fire in so much veneration is, because they say that Zoroastres, being caught up to heaven, did not see God, but heard him speaking with him out of the midst of fire.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Hyde Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 8. p. 160.

Deuteronomio 5:26 In-Context

24 "Ecco, l’Eterno, l’Iddio nostro, ci ha fatto vedere la sua gloria e la sua grandezza, e noi abbiamo udito la sua voce di mezzo al fuoco; oggi abbiam veduto che Dio ha parlato con l’uomo e l’uomo è rimasto vivo.

25 Or dunque, perché morremmo noi? giacché questo gran fuoco ci consumerà; se continuiamo a udire ancora la voce dell’Eterno, dell’Iddio nostro, noi morremo.

26 Poiché qual è il mortale, chiunque egli sia, che abbia udito come noi la voce dell’Iddio vivente parlare di mezzo al fuoco e sia rimasto vivo?

27 Accostati tu e ascolta tutto ciò che l’Eterno, il nostro Dio, dirà; e ci riferirai tutto ciò che l’Eterno, l’Iddio nostro, ti avrà detto, e noi l’ascolteremo e lo faremo".

28 E l’Eterno udì le vostre parole, mentre mi parlavate; e l’Eterno mi disse: "Io ho udito le parole che questo popolo ti ha rivolte; tutto quello che hanno detto, sta bene.